Our
Team.
An independent NGO that turns restrictive measures from regulatory text into operational guidance for the European Mittelstand — and carries the lessons learned back to the regulators who write the rules.
The Founder.
Linus Kühl founded the Institute for Restrictive Measures and leads its research and day-to-day work.
Linus Kühl
Researcher, Senior Controller, and civic leader working at the intersection of data analytics, logistics, artificial intelligence, and ESG reporting. His doctoral work at FH Münster focuses on dynamic risk quantification and supply chain resilience using quantitative and AI-based methods. At Hellmann Worldwide Logistics he leads data-driven controlling and ESG governance — EU taxonomy, ESRS reporting, and carbon-emissions analysis across 60+ countries. As Head of the German Country Office of the German-Baltic Future Foundation, he connects emerging leaders with NATO, the European Parliament, and the Commission.
Our Advisor.
Dominik supports the Institute for Restrictive Measures in an advisory capacity — contributing strategic counsel and subject-matter expertise, outside the institute's executive line.
Advisor · non-executive
Dominik Waszczynski
Dominik Waszczynski (LL.M.) advises the Institute for Restrictive Measures on strategic and specialist questions, contributing an external legal perspective to its research and to the way restrictive measures are translated into operational guidance for the European Mittelstand.
On this role
Dominik acts purely in an advisory capacity. He is not part of the institute's executive line and holds no executing, auditing, reviewing, or approving function; his contributions are consultative and non-binding. Responsibility for the institute's work, decisions, and publications remains with its leadership.
Our vision.
A statement from the Founder on what the institute is for.
Restrictive Measures
We built the institute around a single conviction: no restrictive measure should fail because it could not be implemented on the ground.
Sanctions are written in Brussels, New York, and Washington — but they take effect at the desks of the European Mittelstand, where legal text meets operational reality. We exist to close that gap: to turn restrictive measures into tools, methods, and plain-language guidance that the firms who must comply can actually use, and to carry what we learn back to the institutions that write the rules.
Our aim is a field where compliance is credible and proportionate, where the smallest firm has the same clarity as the largest desk, and where every measure is as enforceable in practice as it is on paper.
With the support of the German-Baltic Future Foundation.
An institutional partner whose cross-border network across Germany and the Baltic states connects the institute's research to the bodies that shape and apply restrictive measures.
The Institute for Restrictive Measures is supported by the German-Baltic Future Foundation.
Through the Foundation's German Country Office, the institute draws on a network that connects emerging leaders with NATO, the European Parliament, and the European Commission — the same institutions whose restrictive measures the institute helps the European Mittelstand implement. That backing keeps the work independent, practical, and close to the desks where sanctions take effect.